Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hewlett, appears to be ready for all comers. In a two-mile run around the freshman track Wednesday, he was timed in an awesome 8:57. "If there hadn't been three other watches on Walt, I wouldn't have believed mine," McCurdy said afterwards...
Kadar wants to keep it that way, last week struck a milestone diplomatic agreement with neighboring Austria that established a mixed commission to adjudicate border conflicts, may eventually raise the mine-strewn Iron Curtain between the two countries...
Profitable Leaps. This bewilderingly diversified and remarkably creative company has become a darling of Wall Street by poking inquisitively into a bunch of unlikely products that stick, slip or scratch. Founded in 1902 to mine corundum for use in abrasive wheels, 3M struggled into the manufacture of sandpaper and then into masking tape. Its big breakthrough was the familiar Scotch Tape, which 3M invented originally as industrial masking tape. Scotch Tape still accounts for 17% of the company's sales, has led to 400 other varieties of tape, the latest of which, introduced to the public in September...
Tourism scarcely expanded at all in Italy, which had predicted an 8% increase. "We have given up a colossal gold mine," wrote the weekly Epoca, as many publications complained that tourists were tired of being seduced by promoters and abandoned to price gougers...
Died. Pierre Cartier, 86, Manhattan jeweler, grandson of the founder of the Paris original, who was sent across the Atlantic in 1907 to mine the U.S. market, quickly established himself as the purveyor of gems to America's rich and famous, displaying 24-carat charm, matchless discretion ("We are the confessor of our clients"), and some of the world's most dazzling baubles, among them the famed Thiers pearl necklace, purchased by Cartier from the Louvre in 1924 for $760,000; of uremia; in Geneva...